by Mario Baghos | Sep 15, 2022 | Architecture, Articles
Introduction This brief article will demonstrate how the Theodosian walls surrounding the city of Constantinople, built by Theodosius II the Younger in the fifth century AD, while fulfilling the practical purpose of extending the city’s boundaries and keeping enemies...
by Mario Baghos | Sep 2, 2022 | Architecture, Articles
In part one of this article, we addressed the columns of Constantinople—and the statues bestriding them—from the fourth-to-early fifth centuries AD, including the column of the city’s founder Constantine, the columns in Theodosius’ Forum which had apocalyptic...
by Mario Baghos | Aug 18, 2022 | Architecture, Articles
Preamble For ancient civilisations, the erection of monuments—whether they were obelisks or honorific columns—implied, from a symbolic point of view, a correspondence or intersection between the horizontal or earthly/terrestrial and the vertical or heavenly/celestial...
by Mario Baghos | Jul 7, 2022 | Architecture, Articles
It is a truism that for ancient persons, the natural world revealed the sacred. Thus, when the dissociation between human beings and nature occurred with the beginning of agriculture and the rise of the first towns and cities (from c. 5000 BC onwards), this...
by Mario Baghos | Jun 23, 2022 | Architecture, Articles
Water has been perceived symbolically since ancient times. In other words, from the activity of water in certain circumstances can be inferred certain phenomena. These can be sustaining and life-endowing, as is the case when we drink water or when rain and irrigation...
by Mario Baghos | Mar 17, 2022 | Architecture
Preamble The previous part of this article accounted for the evolution of the city in the West since the sixteenth century, a period loosely described as ‘modernity’ since it succeeds the medieval period, the Protestant Reformation, and the Renaissance. It traced the...
